your favorite big fish bait. 2025

kms399 reply :

I started out my season fairly decent I was catching numbers but couldn't seem to break that 4LB mark. I went to gander and went to the musky section and I found a Rapala x walk 13. It was big and I love topwater so I picked one up and the next morning my 3rd cast a nice 3 1/2lber. 5 more casts and I pick up a 4.12 lb. I go on to catch 5 more bass all over 3lbs and a little 4 lb musky. not a bad start to a new lure. I have been using this bait for 3 weeks now and have broken the 4lb mark 5 more times and the 5lb mark this morning I am loving this bait!

so I am wondering if anyone has a specific lure that has always produced good sized fish for you.

here is the xwalk if any one is interested.

http://www.cabelas.com/p-0044009121702a.shtml

soccplayer07 reply :

I would guess a jig would be most peoples answer...hard to beat for this application in my opinion.

BenoBreath reply :

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I would guess a jig would be most peoples answer...hard to beat for this application in my opinion.

a 3/8-1/2oz jig with a pork or plastic trailer.

Big Bait Fishing reply :

with out a doubt , a frog !!

Fishing Rhino reply :

It's a jig for me.

Quitlimpin reply :

Jig or creature bait

RoLo reply :

Our most productive big-bass lures seem to rotate every year.

This year, jigs were soundly trounced by the Kalin Mogambo (6" smoke grub) and the 1/2oz Johnson spoon w/ Fat Albert trailer.

Also high in the running was the Berkley Hollow Belly Swimbait (Tennessee shad).

Roger

iceintheveins reply :

Frogs, 6" lizards, and buzzbaits!

iceintheveins reply :

5" and bigger senkos are good big fish baits too, though I've got some of my biggest bass on 4" senkos. Jigs with a pork trailer are great as well, as are brush hawgs and even spinnerbaits.

Catt reply :

What is my favorite big bass bait?

Texas Rigged Plastic

bigtimfish reply :

I have 2. I like BPS 12" squirmin super worms, and my huddleston deluxes.

Siebert Outdoors reply :

1/2oz jig with a 3" trailer

EastTexasBassin reply :

1/2 oz jig with a flappin hog or ragetail lobster trailer

This year I've been gettin some nice ones on cavitron buzzbaits and spro frogs as well.

tritz18 reply :

Live frog

JellyMan reply :

This caught jig caught 10lb 2 ounces...

"Super" Brush Hog in watermelon seed, watermelon gold, or watermelon red.

Watermelon red 10' Rage Anaconda slow rollin weightless.

8-)

bass wrangler569 reply :

largemouth: frog

smallmouth: jerkbait

TheHammer84 reply :

3/8 oz jig w/ 3" trailer

roadwarrior reply :

10" Rage Tail Anaconda

7" Senko

3/8 oz Evolution jig/ Rage Tail Baby Craw

1/2 oz GMAN jig/ GYCB Flappin' Hog, Rage Tail Lobster,

or NetBaits Baby Paca Craw

8-)

CWB reply :

Most of my bigger fish have come on frogs/ buzzbaits but lately RageTail Shads seem to be the ticket. Skipping Senkos and Ikas under docks and boats always seems to get a couple hawgs each year.

Dock Master reply :

For me it has got to be a Carolina rig with a 10" inch Ole Monster or Power Worm.

Another pretty good big fish is 3/4 oz. Jewel jig with a Pinch-It jig trailer from Joe S. or a 3.75 Yum Craw Papi.

Wayne P. reply :

Here it comes again, LOL-------All the bass over 9# I have landed have been with a weedless wacky rigged finesse worm.

DMac reply :

Mattlures soft bluegill or 10" texas rigged worm. 8-)

A.Parris reply :

Lucky Craft BDS3, Buckeye Mop Jig, 1/2 oz. spinnerbait, 1/4 oz. Cavitron buzzbait. These lures have produced many 6+ pound bass for me, and multiple tournament wins.

lightsout reply :

3/8oz secret weapon buzzbait in black/blue has accounted for over twenty citation caliber fish in the last 3 years.

luckycraft sammy (95?) in american shad has landed some football shaped smallies for me.

slider head reply :

tx rigged plastic

roadwarrior reply :

Well, I know we all have some lures/ techniques that we prefer,

mine is fishing jerkbaits. However, if it's all about size, maybe the

answer is swimbaits, they are certainly the "new-new thing".

Over the years #1 & #2 have been jigs and T-rigged soft plastics.

8-)

MONSTERhudd reply :

8" Hudd hands down. No sissy texas rigging here boys.. hahaha

skeetermike reply :

Live shad hooked in tail!!! Ok, top water is a 5" chug-bug or a big ol spook. Underwater presentations the big worm, the bigger the better, works for me. DEEP diving CB's can produce some bigguns too. Still hard to beat live shad though, he, he, he.

simplejoe reply :

7' senko is my favorite. I'm getting into swimbaits they also perform well and 1/2 oz. jigs.

joe

Captain Obvious reply :

I've never caught a fish over 4 lbs unless it was on a crankbait.

RobE reply :

Not my 'most productive' but is my 'favorite', which I think is what you asked. I love the Hellbender! 8-)

I've caught bass, catfish, and walleye with it stock. Add a bucktail jig as a trailer and toss it in a school of stripers! That's fun! 8-)

Castamasta reply :

jig n pig..................all day

Skinnyh2ofishin reply :

Mine would definitely be a Zara Spook. I've also used the X-walk 13 and like it as well but it's on the heavy side.

Blue Streak reply :

I catch big bass on the same baits I catch small bass on. The trick is to be in the right place at the right time. If you put your bait in front of a big bass and it is ready to hit, you will catch him on whatever you are using.

Stingray23 reply :

for me its been a jig and a 10" power worm.

lucasbass25 reply :

last year it was all about frogs for me (s-pro & horney toad). this year the jigs (with gene larew craws4 and 6in salt craws)have been my go to bait for the big ones.

flippin reply :

my 3/4 oz football jig with paca craw trailor

Willzx225 reply :

For the last two years it has to be the 4.25" Yum Vibra King tube

bunkerbstr reply :

-10" Berkley Power Worm

-1/2 Jig & pig

-Swimbait - Poor Boy Silly Rabbit, Osprey

-7" Senko

Bankbeater reply :

Senko type bait

Jig

Plastic Worm 9" or longer.

sardu reply :

I've only been fishing for 3 seasons but literally all my big fish (4-6 lbs) have all come on a large buzzbait.

J Francho reply :

I have three LMB over 6 lbs. this year - not bad for my location. Two came on big jigs, and one on a frog. My biggest last year and the year before came on jigs. I'll go with jigs for now.

8-)

Matt Fly reply :

My best summertime big bass getter is 10-18 inch power worms and others.

I also like throwing 3/4 to 1 1/2 oz spinnerbaits slow rolled or dragged on bottom.

Making bigger worms is easily done in minutes. I use my old soldiering iron and weld or fuse them together. I save all my big plastics and cut them at the tail and join them to another, depends on how much you cut, as to how long they will be.

Same with a Senko, take a bic, melt the hook tears and its good as new. Just heat a little and the plastic heals it self. Saves a ton of money on senkos, and they work just as good the second time around.

don't use a zippo, gives it a smell.

Gangley reply :

ZOOM Horny Toad, without a doubt.

The Green Lizard reply :

Sebile 9" magic swimmer.

Shane J reply :

Jig with a Rage Tail Baby Craw, or 10" Anaconda at night!

looking4structure reply :

i like tx rigged brushhoggs.anything watermelon

urp reply :

For fish over 5 a chrome flatfish after dark. And that's in Northern climes where big fish aren't common.

-ebby- reply :

This one

Primus reply :

In SW Michigan where I'm from I would consider a big bass anything 5 lbs. or over. I've caught these fish on just aboiut anything that you can throw. That said a jig has been my most consistent producer over the years. This year I had my first triple at an area lake (3 over 5 lbs, 24lbs 10 oz for my best 5) and they came on a Bandit 700 series in the Bluegill color, for whatever reason the fish at this one particular lake have really responded to this crank. I've also done well on large topwaters and the SK King Shad has come through for me. I've also have picked up some good ones on Rattlebaits and large jerkbaits like the Pointer 128 in the spring.

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